Middleware Job Trends in Manchester

Middleware
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Middleware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 151 123
Rank change year-on-year +21 -28 +102
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 7 10 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.25% 0.36% 0.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.98% 1.66% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 15
10th Percentile £57,683 £61,924 £36,270
25th Percentile £66,837 £62,935 £46,244
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £66,367 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.31% +1.32% -5.68%
75th Percentile £91,875 £68,114 £73,091
90th Percentile £94,375 - £73,750
North West median annual salary £75,000 £62,888 £62,513
% change year-on-year +19.26% +0.60% +13.66%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Middleware falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 353 604 729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.78% 21.82% 31.90%
Number of salaries quoted 300 369 572
10th Percentile £29,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,125 £86,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +4.35%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Middleware job vacancy trend in Manchester

Middleware
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware

Middleware
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Middleware in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Middleware in Manchester

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) JBoss
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) Intacct
3 2 (28.57%) iPaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Workato
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Boomi
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Ant
1 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Support
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Support Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Applications Support
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Support Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Scripter
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Fintech
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Coaching
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Groovy
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) Podman
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Concur
2 2 (28.57%) Sage
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Software AG
3 1 (14.29%) webMethods